Example sentences of "[noun] had [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again , Allah had been generous . ’ |
| 2 | It appeared to make no difference whether the borough had been charge-capped . |
| 3 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 4 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
| 5 | LIBF director Brian Bradford said this week that demand for stands had been considerable and the fair was already close to being a sell-out . |
| 6 | that the LEA guidelines had been inadequate ; |
| 7 | Members of the University Lecturers Association had been due to take part in a second one-day strike at the university in Aberdeen . |
| 8 | Darwin and Spencer had been wrong to argue that women were in a state of arrested development . |
| 9 | On the field at Culloden , the last of the Boyd clan horse had been disarrayed and the strength reduced to footsoldiering . |
| 10 | The fight was broken up by the housemaster , whose ears had been open in anticipation for some days . |
| 11 | Richard Rowntree , the chairman of the bench , told Mr Smith that if they had taken the view that the ill treatment of his stock had been deliberate , their decision would have been a lot different . |
| 12 | He had been employed before 1917 in the archives of the foreign ministry and one of his ancestors on his mother 's side had been Russian ambassador in Vienna during the 1814 – 15 congress . |
| 13 | The house on our western side had been empty for years . |
| 14 | And again she found herself thinking that maybe Jeff had been right and Guido was simply an insufferable bully , the type of man it would be all too easy to fall out with . |
| 15 | ‘ Up to then , the fans had been tolerant , but they began to get on my back after that . |
| 16 | One of these writers , the poet Hölderlin , claims our particular attention here for the new attitude towards Germany that his commitment to the Greek ideal entails — and also for his intuitive awareness of a greater complexity underlying " the spirit of Greece " than Winckelmann or his immediate successors had been able to recognize . |
| 17 | Corbett had been alone with her for five minutes when she died , but Mr Justice McKinnon told the jury ’ You simply could not be sure that in the short time Danielle was under his control he caused her death . |
| 18 | Shelley gazed as he sang , wondering if Dr Rafaelo had been right in saying that this act was only showmanship , with no genuine feeling or emotion in it . |
| 19 | All 3,700 US forces currently remaining in Kuwait had been due to leave in September , and the US announcement thus revived reports of the Kuwaiti government 's continuing interest in securing a Western military presence in the country [ see p. 38407 ] . |
| 20 | Kuwait had been wary of Iraqi territorial ambitions ever since it gained independence from the UK in 1961 . |
| 21 | By closing down Polish educational institutions ( notably the university at Vil'na and the lycée at Krzemieniec ) , by suppressing the Uniate Church ( in 1839 ) , by abolishing Magdeburg Law in Kiev ( in 1835 ) and the Lithuanian Statute throughout the region ( in 1840 ) , by promoting the publication of history books which argued that the western provinces had been Russian from time immemorial , by depriving many Poles of noble status , by promoting the interests of their Ukrainian and Belorussian serfs , and by insisting that local administration be conducted in Russian , he sought to make clear what he meant by allowing " Nationality " , narodnost' , to be attached to " Orthodoxy " and " Autocracy " in the celebrated circular of 1833 . |
| 22 | Hitherto the republics and provinces had been unable to agree on a budget and international financial institutions had accordingly blocked credits . |
| 23 | Andrew Neil had been charming . |
| 24 | Dr Neil had been busy with a small epidemic of low fever which had fortunately missed Vetch Street , and Matey had decided to do some summer cleaning , spring cleaning having been missed out , due to the deficiencies of Sally-Anne 's predecessor . |
| 25 | Dr Neil had been kind and friendly to her when she had served him breakfast . |
| 26 | Blackberry 's reasoning had been first-rate and Bigwig had at least shown which way any sound-hearted rabbit would be likely to lean . |
| 27 | An environmental activist prior to his appointment in 1990 [ see p. 37312 ] , Lutzemberger had been outspoken in his criticism of Brazilian institutions which he believed were contributing to environmental destruction , particularly that of the Amazon rainforest . |
| 28 | She did not think it necessary to tell him that the University administration had been obliged to circulate all members of staff with a memorandum asking them , if they had been on strike , to volunteer the information ( since there was no other way of finding out ) so that their pay could be docked . |
| 29 | Previously , the Aquino administration had been reluctant to charge Marcos or his wife with a criminal offence , for fear that their presence in the country could provoke an uprising by their supporters . |
| 30 | The defence case was primarily that the shooting had been accidental . |